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Internships

Interested in an internship?

Friends often has interships available in variety of program areas:

The Chicago River Schools Network Program provides K-12 teachers the training and personalized assistance they need to immerse their students in the turbulent history, evolving ecology, and improving health of the Chicago River. If you are interest in working on this program, please contact Mark Hauser, Ecology Outreach Manager at mhauser@chicagoriver.org.

Chicago River Day is a beloved annual watershed wide volunteer day with immediate impact and collectively brings about long-term improvements in the health of the Chicago River. If you are interested in working on this program, please contact Annette Anderson, Volunteer and Events Coordinator at aanderson@chicagoriver.org.

For general inquiries call (312) 939-0490. Thank you for your interest it being an active friend of the river.

Friends of the Chicago River is the only organization solely dedicated to the Chicago River system.

Since 1979, Friends has been working to improve the health of the Chicago River system for the benefit of people and wildlife and by doing so, has laid the foundation for the river to be a beautiful, continuous, easily accessible corridor of open space in the Chicago region.